irina has also performed with the following orchestras: Music
Aeterna, Musica Viva, Moscow chamber orchestra of P.
Slobodkin’s center, Yaroslavl Symphony orchestra, and
worked with conductors T. currentzis, A. rudin, M.
Annamamedov, V. Valitov, i. Gaisin, J. Wilkinsson. in April
2014, irina played her debut recital in Het concertgebouw in
Amsterdam, performing Scriabin, Schubert and Schumann.

IRINA CHISTIAKOVA

umes of Mexican music that have been published with
great worldwide acclaim. in 1997, enrique Bátiz made a
complete recording of three symphonic cycles with the
oSeM; the six symphonies by Piotr lllich Tchaikovsky
(twelve sessions in six days in February 1997), and the four
symphonies by Johannes Brahms (in only four days), at the
centenary of his death and in September of 1998, the four
symphonies by r. Schumann, short pieces by P.l.
Tchaikovsky: capriccio italien, Francesca da rimini,
Polonaise and Waltz of eugene onegin, Marche Slave,
Mazzepa overture and Valse Melancholique from Suite
no. 3, as well as three short pieces by Joaquin rodrigo:
Miedo, canconeta, and Two Berceuses in six days of
recording sessions.
IRINA CHISTIAKOVA, PIANO
irina chistiakova was born in 1990 in Moscow, russia,
and, in 1996, was admitted into the piano program at the
central music school of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State
conservatoire. Three years later, already widely recognized
as a child prodigy, irina was performing chopin solo works
at the conservatory’s Grand Hall. By the time she turned
eleven, she had played at concert halls throughout russia,
Germany and France and had won awards both as a soloist
and in a duet with her older sister Galina, also an awarded
pianist, including a Double Laureate in the russian new
names competition. in 2000, irina was the star of the
irene Langemann film Russian Children Prodigy and was
also featured in Langemann’s follow-up film The
Competitors: Russian Children Prodigy 2. She also took part
in a concert tour in Germany, marking the premiere of the
documentary.

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in the 2000’s, she continued to win prestigious piano competitions including the Moscow Schelkunchik (2002), the
F. chopin international (2004), the Zagreb 2006 Award,
the Giuliano Pecar international (italy, 2007), the Manuel
Ponce international (Mexico, 2010), the claudio Arrau
international (chile, 2012) and the ettore Pozzoli (italy
2013). in 2009, renowned conductor enrique Bátiz invited
her to become a regular guest soloist with the orquesta
Sinfónica del estado de México, currently performing de
Falla and Ponce works with this ensemble in 23 concerts of
their 2015 u.S. tour.

irina is a member of several funds, where she has also been a
scholarship recipient: new names, Fund of V. Spivakov,
russian Performing Art, french fund, and enfance pour la
Vie. irina took part in a cD-recording of these funds, playing
different compositions by chopin, rachmaninov and
Moshkowsky. She also takes part in a joint cD production
performing works by n. Medtner, playing the Minnaciosa
Sonata.
irina's live performances have been broadcasted over the
ArTe, russian culture, and Mexico State radio and
Television networks. irina graduated with honors from the
Moscow State conservatory in 2013, and when she is not
touring and recording, she is doing her postgraduate studies at
Moscow State conservatory with professor Mikhail
Voskresensky and at the university of Arts in Berlin,
Germany with professor Jacques rouvier.
ALFONSO MORENO, GUITAR
Alfonso Moreno is one of the greatest interpreters known to
the world of classical guitar. Moreno takes a symphonic
approach to the guitar, using a broad palette of colors, timbres
and dynamics, which often give the listener the sense of listening to an entire orchestra. Moreno is well known for his
prodigious technique and intense musical interpretations. He
has given more than 3,000 concerts throughout europe,
America and Asia, transforming audiences with the sweetness, depth and sincerity of his interpretation.
Born in Mexico into a family with a strong tradition of art and
culture, he began his musical studies at the age of four. He has
acquired music degrees in violin, composition, conducting,
and guitar.
Since 1968, when he won first place in the Paris international
Guitar competition, organized by radio and Television of
France, his career has taken him to some of the world’s most
prestigious concert halls including: the Tchaikovsky Hall in
Moscow, the Bolshoi Hall of the Philharmonic of St.
Petersburg, the Philharmonic of Kiev, carnegie Hall in new
York, the Hollywood Bowl, the concert Hall of nagoya, the
Yamaha Hall of Tokyo, Wigmore Hall and the royal Festival
Hall of London, the Palace of Fine Arts of Brussels, the San
Peter Kirche of Zürich, the Principal Temple of Zen in
Hiroshima, the Great Theater of okayama, the Theater of
the city of Paris, the rampa Theater of Varsovia, the
Atatürk Kültür Merkesi and Great Theatre of istanbul.
in addition to his solo concerts, Alfonso Moreno has been an